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CIRCULATES IN THE
BEST SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA!
VOL. 52- NO. 36
PROGRAM FOR TAFT
HIGHWAY MEETING
AT CHIPLEY DEC. 2
Program for the Taft Highway
meeting to be held at COC Camp Kim
brough, Chipley, Ga., Dec. 2, at noon:
12 O’Clock, Noon—Meeting called
to order by Mayor J. W. Caldwell, of
Chipley, general chairman.
Invocation —Rev. Gordon Brooks,
Chipley Baptist church.
Introductions—Frank Holder, Cin
cinnati, executive vice-president, Taft
Memorial highway.
Words of Welcome —‘Roy Askew,
president, Chipley Chamber of Com
merce; F. G. Champion, chairman,
Harris county board of commission
ers; Col. J. B. Peavy, representing
Hamilton; Capt. T. H. Sills, Camp
Kimbi ough.
Response—John M. Graham, Rome;
W. E. Aycock, Moultrie; L. W. Mc-
Pherson, Columbus; J. D. Hudson, La-
Grange.
Condition of the Road Through
Georgia—Lawrence W. McPhaul, Doe
run; Mayor T. R. Luck, Carrollton;
Col. W. W. Mundy, Cedartown, and
others.
What Georgia is Doing About the
Road—‘Hon. Herman H.'Watson, mem
ber of the Georgia Highway board,
to be introduced by Hon. Henry Kim
brough.
Address Hon. Emmett Owens,
members of congress, Fourth district
of Georgia.
Short Talks By—George F. Singer,
Columbus; Cason J. Callaway, Blue
Springs farms, Hamilton; W. T. Ben
nett, project manager, Pine Mountain
valley; Gerald B. Saunders, Cataula;
Mayor R. R. Marlin, Dawson; Turner
Brice, Quitman; J. W. Bell, Richland;
P. T. McCutchen, Franklin; Mayor
Herbert Meeks, Bremen; W. E. Mor
gan, Buchanan; W. H. Foster, Rome;
Mayor W. C. Sturdivant, Summerville;
Walter Graham, La Fayette; W.
French Grubb, Chattanooga, and oth
ers.
Adjournment at 4 p.m.
LYERLY TAKES TWO.
Lyerly High school boys and girls
won a double-header from Menlo
High school boys and girls Tuesday
night, the boys winning, 40 to 25, and
the girls winning, 20 to 19.
This gives Lyerly boys and girls
three victories in the county high
school league without a loss, having
won from Gore and Subligna.
The Lyerly and Menlo Independent
teams will meet at Menlo Thursday
night in a basket ball game.
EXPORT OF ARMS.
Licenses for the export of arms,
ammunition and implements of war
aggregated $4,080,810 in October,
with Japan getting only $85,138 and
China $1,949.
RADIO.
The $1,500,000,000 radio industry,
young and powerful, will go under
the microscope of the federal com
munications commission, which is in
vestigating practices
alleged to exist through concentra
tion of control of companies and net
works. The financial relationships of
the three nationwide networks will be
studied. The National Broadcasting
company, a subsidiary of the Radio
Corporation of America, owns and
operates twelve stations and supplies
programs to 150 affiliated units. It
will be a major factor in the inquiry
which will also include the Columbia
and Mutual broadcasting systems.
During the last two years, member
ship in dairy herd improvement as
sociations in the United States has
increased by more than B,OGO, and an
additional 150,000 cows have been
placed on test.
4-H Club Achievement
Day to Be Held Dec. 3
The 4-H club of Chattooga county
will hold the annual county rally
Dec. 3 at 10:36; a.m. in the high
school auditorium. The following pro
gram will be presented by the club
girls:
4-H Club Song—Club members.
Scripture—Mattie Lou Edwards,
Bolling 4-H club.
4-H Club Pledge.
Reading—Emily Hollis, Lyerly club.
Song—Menlo 4-H Club.
“Meeting of Better City Campaign
Committee” —Gore 4-H Club.
Tap Dance—Peggy Crawford, Ly
erly Club.
Miss Lula Edwards, northwest dis
trict agent, will present a medal to
the most outstanding 4-H club girl
of Chattooga county. This girl is se
lected by her record during the past
year. Others honors will be the
awarding of the certificates of honor
to the ten most worthy club members
who have completed their four years
of 4-H club work, and promotion
pards.
The public is most cordiftlly InvFM
Snmnu'nnllr Nms 6
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA,
Menlo P.-T.A.
Looks Backward
“Backward, turn backward,
Oh, Time, in your flight;
Make me a child again
Just for tonight!”
There is a tender yearning in every
human heart to recapture a bit of the
past—especially some of the pleas
ant experiences.
The Menlo P.-T. A. will sponsor a
program on Friday evening, Dec. 9,
designed to bring thrills of reminis
cence to everybody with a past.
In action again, prominent men of
the community will re-live for the
audience some of the incidents of “Ye
Olde Village School.”
On the stage will be fifteen or
twenty “boys” whose grandchildren
will sit gleefully in the audience and
learn how grandpa did it.
There will ‘be smiles—perhaps a
tear now and then—as we follow the
follies and trials of Bert and Joe and
Ernest.
But next week’s issue of The Sum
merville News will carry a detailed
announcement of this program.
Probably names of the entire
“skule” will be published. Watch for
further notice.
2G6 PWA PROJECTS.
TOTAL FOR GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Nov. 29 (GPS).—The
public works administration has an
nounced from Washington, that it
virtually had completed its 1938 pro
gram, having allotted -723,895,474 in
loans and grants for non-federal
projects from $724,000,000 made
available to it for that purpose.
Georgia, with 206 approved proj
ects, trailed only California, Minne
sota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Georgia’s allotments, however, were
tor comparatively small and inexpen
sive projects. In all, the state was
appropriated $9,809,127 in federal
grants and loans, while her equitable
share of the total funds on a basis of
population and employment need was
given as $14,118,000.
The discrepancy, it was-* pointed
out, was due to the failure of some
Georgia municipalities to vote bonds
to meet their share of the cost of the
public improvements, and of laws to
prevent government agencies from
incurring heavy indebtedness.
Os the federal funds earmarked for
Georgia projects, $9,528,294 was in
outright grants, and only $280,833
was loaned. The money will help fi
nance a statewide construction pro
gram to be completed at an estimat
ed cost of $21,173,998.
The Chattooga
Public Library
Above the little white office build
ing on West Washington street, one
can now see the following sign, The
Chattooga Public Library. Open the
door, there awaits you a pleasant
welcome—Mrs. Cleghorn, the librar
ian, is there to greet you and give
you her service. You will find a warm,
clean room, the walls freshly calca
mined, the floor newly painted,
shelves of ‘books, a heater, a desk,
library table, drapery at the win
dows. The rent for the building paid
six months in advance.
Who has the magic touch ? How did
all this happen? This did not just
happen, it represents the efforts of
a group of people—a material illus
tration of the forward-looking forces
at work to make this a better county
in which to live. Let us say with
Horace Mann, “Had I the power, I
would scatter libraries over the whole
land as the sower sows his wheat
field.”
Those who have contributed serv
ice, funds and furniture to the library
are: Harvey Phillips, G. C. Sublette,
C. C. Cleghorn, James Jackson, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Pless, Mrs. O. A.
Selman, the county commissioners, the
Stitch-and-Chatter club, the Woman’s
club and interested citizens. To these
the library extends sincerest thanks.
With this accomplished, our future
looks bright. We wish to begin to add
new and recent books to our shelves,
for, after all you know, a library is
books. We feel that we cannot stress
too strongly the need for promoting
and developing interest in the free
public library. No greater contribu
tion can be made to the building of
good citizenship than supplying of
books, magazines and newspapers
that will build character and furnish
ideals for living.
Mrs. Cleghorn has indeed put her
shoulder to the wheel to make the
library a success. Her service is vi
tal and untiring. She is anticipating
a story hour for the children and has
other interesting ideas up her sleeve.
Come, let’s help her make the library
a center of civic pride.
KATHARINE HENRY.
The profitable dairy herd of today
is the one that has sound health, is
properly fed, and has the inheritance
for high production.
LOCALS AND LYERLY
TO OPEN CAGE SEASON
HERE SATURDAY NITE
The local team meets the fast Ly
erly team on Sturdivant floor Satur
day night at 8 o’clock in the first
basket ball game of the season.
Sponsor Roy Alexander tells us
that he has moulded together one of
the best best teams to have ever
represented Summerville. He has add
ed some very excellent players to
those left from last year’s winning
team.
These boys have been working out
for the past several days and they
are fast rounding into form.
Next Saturday night the locals will
again tangle with the boys from the
lower part of Chattooga county, Ly
erly, to again show the followers of
the Summerville team that we have
the better “five.”
The Lyerly aggregation has just
about the same personnel as last
year. These boys have played a game
or so already this season and they
say they are ready to go.
So if you are ready to see some
fast action on the court, fail not, un
der the penalty of regret, to see the
opening game here next Saturday.
In a four-cornered race for trus
tees for two places on the board of
trustees for the Summerville Con
solidated school district, James R.
Burgess was elected to fill the va
cancy created when A. J. Eilenburg,
who has been a member of the board
for many years, did not seek re
election.
Leon Gamble was re-elected to the
post he has filled since the resigna
tion of B. W. Farrar about a year ago.
The races for the two places were
very “hot,” as there was opposition
furnished by J. B. Garvin and J. A.
Pullen.
Mr. Burgess received 194 votes;
Leon Gamble, 140 votes; Mr. Pullen,
88 votes, and Mr. Garvin, 36 votes.
Two hundred and thirty votes were
cast.
Funeral Home Moved
The Paul Weems Funeral home has
been moved to the Jones residence on
South Commerce street. This is a nice,
commodious house and will make an
attractive residential funeral home.
Mr. Weems has made many improve
ments which will add much beauty to
this attractive place.
Summerville is glad to boast of an
up-to-date funeral home, and much
credit goes to Mr. Weems for his suc
cessful work and manner in which he
serves his many friends.
Singing At Berryton
A singing will be held at the Ber
ryton Baptist church Friday night,
Dec. 2. The La Fayette “Four” will
be present. Also others are expected.
You are invited to come.—H. S.
Smith.
How Welfare Program
Helps The Needy Blind
ATLANTA, Nov. 26.—Although
rural residents represented two-thirds
of more than 1,100 Georgians receiv
ing aid to needy blind in the first
year of the Rivers administration’s
welfare program, Director Lamar
Murdaugh today described the plight
of the family of a skilled urban ma
chinist struck suddenly blind, and
how that family is being helped by
the state to find the road back to eco
nomic secuiity.
Murdaugh said the case of this par
ticular citizen, although it is not gen
eral as to detail, showns in graphic
manner how one phase of the state
welfare program operates in the
words of the governor, “to stretch
out a helping diand to an unfortunate
individual who otherwise might sink
deeper into misery.”
Here is the story Murdaugh told:
The day has been a busy one in a
moderate-sized machine shop in a
Georgia town. The man in charge has
been working long hours in order to
get out several promised jobs before
closing time. He is finishing up his
part of a job at the electrically-op
erated saw. Possibly his attention is
diverted for a moment, and in that
unguarded moment a sharp sliver of
steel imbeds itself in the workman’s
eye.
From this accident, an eye infection
develops, resulting in necessary re
moval of the injured eye and subse
quent total loss of sight in the other.
And so, a hitherto self-sustaining la
borer suddenly finds himself faced
with the problem of caring for a wife
and five children, ranging in age
from 7 to 18 years. Only source of
revenue is from a daughter who
works as a stenographer and only
other immediate hope is that a son
who finishes high in the
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,1938.
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Nov. 29 (GPS).—An
other 'thanksgiving has passed. Then
comes Christmas. After that the New
Year. As 1938 wanes every indication
points toward better times. Merchants
from all over Georgia are looking to
1938 Christmas buying to outstrip
1937 s brisk holiday trade. While re
ports from cities and crossroads in
dicate no “boom” expectations, the
general tone is optimistic and buy
ing preparations show business men
are willing to gamble that the cash
registers will ring lustily. Principal
among the factors contributing to this
confidence has been the impact of
general business upswing which be
gan in late summer and has gained
momentum ever since. In Atlanta,
Macon, Moultrie, Albany and many
other Georgia points, optimism pre
vails. And leading economists are
looking beyond the Christmas shop
ping season; they thing 1939 will see
business continuing to hum.
Five-Year Low: Financing by the
railroads of the country in the first
nine months of 1938 was the smallest
for any similar period during the
past five years. It amounted to $25,-
993,000, and was accomplished thru
the sale of long-term bonds and
notes; no short-term bonds and notes
or new stock-issues being sold during
the first three quarters. Os the total
amount of railroad financing in this
period, $15,993,000 represented new
capital and $10,000,000 went for re
funding purposes, according to fig
ures from a report just issued by the
Comemrcial and Financial Chronicle.
In the first three quarters of 1937,
such financing amounted to $334,463,-
000; in 1936 it stood at $721,293,000;
in 1935, at $175,643,100, and in 1934
at $222,960,100
Gist Os the News: Henry L. Deese
has geen ordered to move his Augus
ta liquor store by Dec. 15, or lose his
state license because his present lo
cation was found to be fourteen
yards too near a church. The store is
eighty-six yards from a church by
the nearest route of travel, and the
law requires 100 yards distance . . .
Gov. liiivers has administered oath of
office to two of the three justices of
the Georgia supreme court elected
to begin full terms Jan. 1. They are
Warren Grice, of Macon, and William
H. Duckworth, of Cairo.
To Recruit 21 Marines
At Macon This Month
The December quota of enlistments
allotted to the U. S. Marine corps re
cruiting station at Macon, headquar
ters for this area, is twenty-one, Ma
jor J. M. Tildsley, officer in charge,
announced.
Complete data on physical and men
tal requirements for enlistment can
be obtained by writing or visiting the
Macon office. Application forms will
be sent on request, it was stated.
will be able to help carry the burden.
For a time the wife attempts to
run a boarding house but the venture
fails when her health breaks under
the strain.
The case is brought to the atten
tion of the welfare department and,
after investigation, the man is pro
vided with a pension and the fami
ly receives help in other ways.
Beginning in July, 1937, as part
of the welfare program of the pres
ent administration, the state for the
first time in its history began paying
pensions to the needy blind. There
were, however, fewer applications
for this type of state assistance than
any other form, Murdaugh said.
Os more than 1,100 pensions award
ed in the first fiscal year of the law’s
existence, the largest number of
benefits were paid to persons between
the ages of 50 and 69, a total of 534
having been aided. Os this number,
369 reside in rural areas, the state
director explained, pointing out fur
ther that in the same period, twenty
two blind persons more than 80 years
of age were assisted by the state
government.
Persons without employment or
classified as unemployable led all
others in receiving benefits in the
form of pensions for the blind, Mur
daugh said. A total of 441 persons
in this classification were awarded
assistance. Os this number 334 live in
rural sections and 107 in urban areas.
There were fewer office workers on
the list of those receiving this type
of pension than any other occupa
tion, only eight being placed on the
rolls. Next came semi-skilled work
ess with ten beneficiaries and third
were skilled workers in manufactur
ing with eleven recipients, More men
received pensions for blindness than
women, the figures being 273 tq 168.
Cases Set For Trial
At December Court
Below is a list of the cases set for
trial at the December, 1938, term of
city court of Chattooga county. These
cases will be called and all other
cases in city court of Chattooga
ounty are subject to call at this term,
term.
V. L. Veatch (four cases), J. O.
Wilson, George Barlow, Paul Byars,
Sam Favor (two cases), Jim Barry,
Turner Green (two cases).
Jurors Drawn, to Serve
At December Court
J. T. Gamble, C. M. Tutton, R. P.
Gaines, W. A. Hood, W. E. Murphy,
Alfred Patrick, C. R. Lawless, Geo.
W. Hendrix, J. L. Webster, E. C.
Hayes, J. W. Parris, Rowland Hemp
hill, Doyal Gayler, W. C. Wilson, L.
F. Ballard, B. H. Hayes, J. J. Bennett,
Sidney L. Hawkins.
J. R. Wyatt, J. H. Dodd, P. B.
White, C. H. Williams, R. R. Garrett,
George E. Doster, Maxwell White, W.
J. White, Jr., J. T. Holt, Gerald
O’Barr, Z. O. Gilreath, W. H. Barron,
H. G. Jolly, R. T. Baker, T. W. Book
er, E. E. Martin, A. W. Vernon, J.
R. Jackson, Jr.
REVIVAL CLOSES AT
IST BAPTIST CHURCH
One of the most successful meet
ings held in the First Baptist church
in recent years was closed on Sunday
night with the beautiful ordinance of
baptism. In every way, it was a great
meeting. The attendance kept up re
markably despite outside attractions
and inclement weather. There were
twenty-one additions in the meeting
and it is expected that many more
will follow in the next year. The
spirit of loyalty on the part of the
congregation was beautiful indeed.
The spirit of co-operation on the
part of the other congregations in
Summerville, together with the back
ing of all the pastors, is deeply ap
preciated by the church and the pas
tor.
As the meetings have come io a
close, it is ’the' earnest desire df the
pastor that every member of the
church continue in that splendid and
gracious loyalty which made the
meetings such a success. Let us join
hands and labor together in every
way in whih the church and the king
dom of God need us.
To every one who assisted with the
music and to all other who were able
to help in any special way, the church
and pastor desire to express their
gratitude.
The pastor is grateful to the W. M.
S. for the bountiful pantry shower
which was so acceptable.
The services for Sunday will be as
follows:
9:45 A. M.—Sunday school; Duke
M. Espy, superintendent.
11 A. M.—Morning worship, “The
Little Foxes Spoil the Grapes.”
6:15 P. M.—B. T. U.; Miss Whit
worth in charge.
7:15 P. M.—Preaching service, “Are
There Courageous Christians Any
more ? ”
Prayer meeting Wednesday eve
ning at 7:15.
Fellowship club Thursday evening
at 7:15.
NEW NICKEL.
The new Jefferson nickels will soon
be scattered throughout the country,
showing the third president on one
side and Monticello on the other. Last
week about 11,000,600 coins were
shipped to the Federal Reserve banks
and distribution of the new coin be
gan.
For growing plants in the home,
try to provide a place where they
will have plenty of light, enough mois
ture in the air, and good soil to
grow in.
Earl Beatty Receives
Emory Varsity Letter
(Special to The News.)
ATLANTA, Nov. 29.—Earl Beatty,
of Summerville, was awarded a var
sity football letter at the conclusion
of Emory university’s annual intra
mural season, George Moye, director
of athletics at Emory, has announced.
Beatty was one of only two fresh
men to be awarded varsity letters and
is the third freshman in Emory’s his
tory to win this distinction. He was
a consistently brilliant performer at
halfback on the freshman entry in
Emory’s unique intramural league, in
which four interclass teams compete
in place of intercollegiate contests.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beatty,
of Summerville, Beatty played at
Darlington school, Rome, before en
tering Emory this year. Coach Moye
calls him “one of the best backfield
prospects ever to bg seen at Emory.”
Sixteen gridders. Including Beatty,
were awarded letters at the end of
the season, Moye said.
PAGES THIS
WEEK OF
THE NEWS.
$1.50 A YEAR
EXTENSION DIRECTOR
URGES ALL ELIGIBLE
TO VOTE ON QUOTAS
Facts on the size of the present
cotton surplus and the manner in
which the Triple-A farm program is
dealing with the cotton and tobacco
problems are important to Georgia
farmers in view of the approaching
election on marketing quotas for
1939, Director Walter S. Brown, of
the Georgia agricultural extension
service, said in Athens this week.
The quota election will be held on
, Dec. 10, with marketing quotas in the
' case of each crop, to be continued
for another year if approved by two
thirds of the farmers voting.
“Every Georgia cotton and tobacco
farmer should vote in this important
referendum,” Director Brown said.
“In order to have a better under
standing of the situation, a great
many farmers are making a careful
study of the factors involved.
“They have learned, for example,
that the present world supply of cot
; ton is about fifty-two million bales.
! This is the largest supply ever avail
able in one season.
“Our crop in the United States
this year was held to a little over
twelve million bales, due to the fact
that most farmers co-operated in the
farm program and planted within
their allotments. However, it must be
remembered that last year, without a
control feature to the farm program,
we produced approrimately nineteen
million bales, the largest crop in his
tory.
“As a result, we had a record car
ryover this year of around thirteen
and one-half million bales, or an
amount of cotton about equal to a
j year’s needs for domestic use and ex
; port. In other words, when we start
!ed harvesting the 1938 crop we al
| ready had enough cotton on hand to
■ run us another year, without even
taking the 1938 crop into consodiera-
' tion.
■ “In view of this situation, we are
bound to have another big carryover
next August. Lt is plain to see that if
acreage is expanded and production
increased, we would simply be filing
more surplus cotton on top of the
present enormous surplus-—and a Ng-
i ger surplus would mean chapter cot
i ton.
“These facts indicate the urgent
I need for a continuation of the agri
| cultural conservation program, under
| which we can continue to adjust ac
reage in 1939.”
Diretor Brown pointed out that
[ quotas are provided as part of the
present farm program to be used by
i cotton and tobacco growers when the
| surpluses get too big. Through the
use of quotas, he said, farmers have
I a chance to work together to protect
their income and gradually reduce
the supply to a reasonable level.
“With quotas in effect, backed by
a penalty on all cotton sold in excess
jof the farm quota, co-operating
| farmers have a curb on those who
otherwise would be tempted to up
set the program by overplanting,”
Director Brown said. “The conserva
tion part of the program will continue
to operate regardless of the vote on
quotas, but if quotas are voted down,
the co-operators will have no way to
hold those who want to expand their
cotton acreage in line.
“Furthermore, it is important to
remember that if quotas are confin
ed in 1939, the program provides au
thority for a government loan on cot
ton; but if quotas are rejected, no
loan will be available to put a floor
under the price.”
The extension director urged all
cotton producers to study the facts
j carefully before the quota election.
■ He said it was especially important
I for all farmers to indiate their wishes
, by voting.
AUTO FINANCE.
The Ford and Chrysler Motor com-
■ panies have reformed their conduct
j of automobile financing, under agree
ment with the department of justice,
| which has dropped anti-trust cases
! against them, conditioned upon the
i successful prosecution of the charge
against the General Motors corpora
tion, which has not agreed upon ac
ceptable reforms. The three large
auto companies were indicted for un
fair competition in forcing dealers to
| use the services of their own financ
ing subsidiaries.
SUPREME COURT.
With a vacancy on the supreme
court, considerable speculation about
the president’s nominee is being
heard, especially in view of the re
i cent election and the belief that the
appointment will indicate a future
! trend as well as provide a test for
| liberals and conservatives in congress.
The president is not expected to nom
inate anybody until congress con
venes.
Whether to treat or to fill tree
! cavities caused by decay, is a question
i which often comes to tiff men in the
l U. S. D. A.